WH Chief of Staff: ‘I Don’t Know If We’ll Ever Recognize' a Taliban Government

White House chief of staff Ron Klain attends a briefing in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on June 30, 2021. Saul Loeb/AFP

White House chief of staff Ron Klain said on Aug. 31 that he wasn’t sure if the United States would ever recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.

“I don’t think anytime soon. I don’t know if we'll ever recognize their government,” Klain said on the “The Mehdi Hasan Show.”